Notice that there are a few filter options on the right. Your goal is to build a PowerPoint for your regional sales teams, but you don’t want them to see each other’s information. You have a couple of options:

Create a separate dashboard for each region. Terrible idea! Way too many charts to maintain.

Add user level security. This is easy to do with Tableau Server, but there are lots of companies that can’t afford Tableau Server. So that option could be out the window.

Create filtered URLs and embed those in the PowerPoint via the instructions from Monday.

The link for the image for the whole dashboard is https://[YourTableauServerURL]/views/OneMinuteDashboard/OneMinuteDashboard.png. And the resulting image looks like this:

If you want a page for the Central team, you simply add ?Region=Central to the end of the URL if you are using Tableau Server. The URL now looks like this:

Notice how the Region is filtered to Central. You could embed this into PowerPoint, then duplicate the PowerPoint file and change to image to the East, etc.

You can include as many filters as you want by adding an ampersand (&) then whatever else you want to filter. The filter has to be in the format filter_name=value.

If I want a page for each Order Priority for Central, then all I do is add &Order Priority=Critical to the URL. Then replace this with High, then Medium, etc. In this example, the URL would now look like this:

Do you need to show the quick filters using this technique? No, but for me it makes the image more clear to the reader to do so. You could remove the quick filters and have the title update based on the filters. That would look good.

Finally, if you want to include multiple selections from a filter, perhaps Critical and High, then you simply add ,High to the URL.

Tad, I haven't tried that, but I suspect you could do it by creating a calculated field like MINDATE = MIN([MyDate]) and then filter on that as a starting date filter. Then in the URL you would put MINDATE={the date}.

I'm using tabcmd to export a workbook as twbx from the server to a shared drive. The URL used for the argument of the get command is similar to that you've used to embed the image. I'm wondering if it's possible to pass similar filters to the URL so that the data of the resulted twbx is restricted by the filter specified in the URL. Thanks!

It works when I export a single view as pdf, png, etc., but doesn't when I export the entire workbook. I still see the whole data set in the packaged workbook. I'm not sure if I'm missing anything, but here's the tabcmd I'm using:tabcmd get "workbook/RevPerWafer.twbx?Technology=28NM" -f "C:\Users\TYEN\Documents\RevPerWafer.twbx"It runs fine (returns a "Succeeded" message and I'm able to open the workbook), but is not restricting the data.The following works and is filtering the data as desired, but the result is a static, single view instead of a workbook:tabcmd get "views/RevPerWafer/RevPerWafer.pdf?Technology=28NM" -f "C:\Users\TYEN\Documents\RevPerWafer.pdf"

I am passing name of country using URL action to a dashboard, that dashboards is as a tab in a workbook. Now the user want the same country filter to remain applied when he navigate through different tabs.

Please suggest a way to do this as I can see the # appended to the URL is causing the problem else it will work.http://tableau/v/fhrytu/views/BenchmarkDashboard/SEOPerformancedashboard?Country=US&:linktarget=_self#7so can we permanently remove #7 from above URL.

Hi Andy, I have a similar problem in that I have a "Home" page with a list of Regions and a "Mainpage" with a web page object using the url's of 3 other embedded dashboards. I need to be able to select a Region and have that filter value transfer to the Mainpage and all dashboards inside of that web page object. I can see in the address bar that it is changing but my view still shows all regions.URL action in Home http://tableau-na.com/views/MYDASHBOARD/MAINPAGE?Region=&:embed=yes&:toolbar=noAddress bar after filter and navigation to Mainpagehttp://tableau-na.com/views/MYDASHBOARD/MAINPAGE?Region=West&:embed=yes&:toolbar=no

I can get it to work outside of the url web page object but not inside of it. (Meaning it will open up a separate browser window not inside my Mainpage)

Actually i have doubt, As you mentioned above ,you have set the "Region = Central", Is there any possiblities to send the value dynamically. I have around 30 values in region field. Then how to do this?

Hoping you can assist with this. I have two dashboard sheets with multiple viz's on each. A user will only see the landing dashboard I've set up then based on their date selections in one of the viz's will be navigated to the second detail sheet.

I tried to implement a print icon with the URL assigned but can't quite figure out how to pass the date or dates selected from the first sheet into the URL needed in the second sheet. Hoping you might be able to help with this so I can include any date filter selections into the URL.

I am working on the same issue. We want a summary report on the 1st dashboard and the detailed report on the 2nd dashboard as well. What I did-I created a parameter to filter the device type... but I found out that parameter was not on the URL address. If I created a filter instead, the filter would show up on the URL address.Is it possible to put the parameter on the URL link?

The gist is I'd like whatever filters chosen by the user in Dashboard 1 to be passed on into the URL image on Dashboard 2. This URL would then download a CSV file that is a predefined visual which is not surfaced in Dashboard 2.

The ONLY way to get what we want is to have the user click the standard Export - CrossTab built into Tableau server. Opening the workbook will not work since it assumes you are starting a brand new session and so only your default (published) filters and params are available. Using any kind of URL will only work if you have single params to pick from (or max/min dates to pass). Since this only covers a small number of use cases, we must get the user to click an embedded worksheet on a dashboard and then use the Tableau standard export. In my case we were trying to do this with a 300,000 row download. So the last thing we want is to tax the vizSQL engine with rendering all that data. I think this approach may provide adequate speed although it is sinfully ugly.

Assume you already have a dashboard with some filters (multi-select) etc. Then do this:

1. Create a worksheet with the data you want on Details. Nothing on rows or columns.2. Ensure filters are global or applied to this worksheet from your "driver" worksheet.3. Choose Mark Type "Shape" and select one you like - I chose a circle.4. Make the Shape bigger and squish the screen down to show just a few.5. Put an instruction Title on such as: "To Export Details, Click on the circle below and then click on Export (icon above) and choose Crosstab".6. Go to your dashboard and drag the worksheet on whereever you want. 7. Publish and test. The user will have to click in the circle to "Highlight" it and then do the export.

For more fun: Since you are embedding a live worksheet on your dashboard it will take extra time to process. Get around this by adding a Boolean filter that the user can checkmark with a title such as "Fetch Details for export". The circle will disappear when this is false and reappear when it is true. Oh my gosh - it almost looks like workflow. Except it's ugly!

Kirk, first, your URL should be ?: (include the colon). As for your question, you should be able to build a calculated field that creates the URL with the syntax you want based on what the user selects in the filters and then use that calculated field in the source for the URL.

Can you pass the "All" option in a filter? I have a view that I want to render, but it is blank because one of the filters has nothing selected..This is what I would like to pass:views/ASY_PAK_Reports/TrendLine?SUB_FAMILY_NAME=BARTS&TEST_CLASS=ASSY&PACKAGE_LEADS=(All)However "(All)" is not selected when rendered.

Can you pass the "All" option in a filter? I have a view that I want to render, but it is blank because one of the filters has nothing selected..This is what I would like to pass:views/ASY_PAK_Reports/TrendLine?SUB_FAMILY_NAME=BARTS&TEST_CLASS=ASSY&PACKAGE_LEADS=(All)However "(All)" is not selected when rendered.

Does this still work? I can't make it work on my workbook, and I can't seem to make it work using your viz either. I've noticed there is some extra profile information in the Tableau Public URL that wasn't in your blog post URL. Thank you!

Found this while doing a web search, FYI nowadays Tableau Public uses & instead of ? as the leading character after the view name. A couple of other notes from reading through the comments:

- We can use URL parameters to filter sets, we first need to create a calculated field based on the Set such as IF [SetName] THEN 1 ELSE 0 END and then the URL parameter would use the name of the calculated field. I haven't tried this with the new v10 ability to use ad hoc groups in calculated fields but I expect it would work the same.- We can use URL parameters to set both field values as well as Tableau parameter values.

Hi Andy! I'm actually trying to embed a web page on my tableau dashboard (10.0), but I'm struggling to pass a value through in the URL to embed. It appears I can only use parameter values and not filter values. For example, on the dashboard I have 4 separate viz's. They all have filters for location based on a parameter since they each have a different sql data source. Naturally, the parameter is at the top of the dashboard but it's a textual value for the location rather than a location code. The location code is on each of the viz's. It's that location code that I need to pass in the URL so that the embedded page displays data for only that location. Do you have any suggestions for how I might be able to get this to work?TIA

HI Andy, I am trying to pass a filter from URL (?Service=Pricing) to an embedded dashboard in a html page (not to tableau server). I am not sure how to pass this value on the embed code param name=filter value=(here the value from url). I am able to pull the url value using the below JS function getUrlObj() {var para = location.search.substring(1);document.getElementById("paraID").innerHTML = "value='"+para+"'";}

I have been using this feature extensively over the last few months. In my experience, the url filters apply to the entire dashboards, irrespective of whether or not the particular field is on the filter shelf of each of the worksheets. In certain cases, the user wants the filter to be not applied on a specific chart and filter the rest of the dashboard. I have browsed through many of the forum and haven't been able to find out if it is possible. Any input is appreciated.

Hi VizWiz! We have been trying to implement something like this but without the .PNG requirement. In particular, when a user clicks on a Month data point from a line Chart, we want to use it in a filter for a subdashboard (embeded via Web Url) to show records just for that month. Any guidance to help us achieve our requirement would be much appreciated.....